Justin Hu

Digital Reporter man

[Ben McKay @benmackey]

absolute scenes at Aus PM Albanese’s formal welcome to NZ parliament as Australian camera operators break protocol, running *in front* of Hipkins and disrupt the Māori welcome to get decent shots. it was disgraceful. Kiwis couldn’t believe it. anyway here’s the handshake

[Rebecca Matthews @RebeccaJEmm]

Scanning for anonymous accounts praising number 55 on the ACT party list

[Adi Robertson (@thedextriarchy.bsky.social) @thedextriarchy]

i love @reckless pushing chris dixon on blockchain stuff here especially as we’re a year or two into “web3 is totally going to happen” https://t.co/RKgFlXqNqC

[Kirsty Johnston @kirsty_johnston]

I met lawyer Sue Grey to try and work out why she’s so dedicated to pushing conspiracy theories - about Covid, about 1080, about 5G - even when her work hurts people.

She was warm, charming, and completely convinced of her own rightness. Story here:

https://t.co/c6M10zJbre

[Critical_Ass @CriticalMassAKL]

Fantastic piece by @HaydenDonnell which tells the story of Auckland's streets and underpins a lot of why transport advocates do what we do. https://t.co/oIUxbJyYIN

[shoshana wodinsky (she/her) @swodinsky]

tfw checking your work email for the first time after a month-long med leave

(also hi, i’m back)

[shoshana wodinsky (she/her) @swodinsky]

it's kinda staggering that the whole "want" equation has been mostly absent from convos about what platform regulation might look like. this is *literally* the heart of what makes algorithms tick. why aren't we talking about it?

https://t.co/IMwQi4uPfY

[scoot! @ScootFoundation]

The guy who presented to the committee was wearing a nice suit and had an awesome Tokyo street as his zoom background, so I assume this was done by an urbanist sleeper cell within Council

[orange? @generic_orange1]

Newspaper: something good might actually happen!

Also newsspaper: April Fools! You idiots, you big dummies. Nothing good ever happens, the world is burning and our city is sinking into the sea. https://t.co/4iboXiygVD

[Francis McRae @FrankMcRae]

Me giving myself a RAT test

[Matt Nippert @MattNippert]

This, along with Parasite winning all the Oscars a couple of years back, is a pretty amazing tipping point for screen media. https://t.co/QvODqKBleH

[Chlöe Swarbrick @_chloeswarbrick]

Won’t somebody think of the business case industrial complex

[Marc Daalder 😷 Wear a Mask @marcdaalder]

All they know is buy secondhand, eat meat pie and lie

[shoshana wodinsky (she/her) @swodinsky]

the ongoing market fallout from apple's updates is biggest tech privacy story happening rn (imo), but it isn't getting much mainstream buzz. sure, it might be bc the subject matter is wonky and weird, but i also think it's bc this case raises... uncomfy q's abt online economics:

[henry cooke @henrycooke]

i'm a younger millennial so will only understand what's going on in ukraine when someone makes a pastel-coloured instagram video about why it is "problematic"

[Joshua Benton @jbenton]

My consistent complaint/concern about investigative podcasts:

Because of a comparatively opaque format, it's *astonishingly* easy for media wherever the investigation takes place to ignore the findings.

If this was a 4K-word @nytimes piece, the media impact would be greater.

[Justin Hu @justin_hu_]

@Jess_McAllen I just wrote a thing about this! https://t.co/6zfyHkwrpF

[Justin Hu @justin_hu_]

Researchers: Symptomatic Covid testing could be more accessible
https://t.co/6zfyHkwrpF

[scoot! @ScootFoundation]

Needs to be a nz urbanism podcast